The “Bridesmaids” cast has reunited at the Dolby Theatre as Oscar presenters.

A federal judge says a Democratic lawmaker is entitled to participate in a Kennedy Center board meeting to discuss President Donald Trump’s plan to close the performing arts center for two years of renovations.

The downfall of the world's top chef has raised questions about whether time is up for the storied bullying and abuse of fine dining kitchens.

More than 30 states will resume their antitrust trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Monday after negotiations this week failed to result in many states joining a tentative settlement reached by the Justice Department.

The inclusion of Russia in the line-up of the 2026 Venice Biennale art fair has sparked international outcry.

Richard Grenell is stepping down as president of the Kennedy Center after leading changes that drive artists away.

The renowned Museum Ludwig in Germany is celebrating its 50th anniversary by opening a nearly five-month exhibit with more than 300 works of the famed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

Ryan Coogler says the Oscars matter, but he is focused on enjoying the moment with his “Sinners” team.

A film charity has uncovered two episodes of sci-fi series “Doctor Who” that were long believed lost.

As a staff photojournalist for The Associated Press based in Los Angeles, Chris Pizzello covers hundreds of entertainment events a year.

Wrexham’s celebrity owners are swapping the boardroom for the commentary booth to mark five years since their game-changing takeover of the Welsh soccer club.

The Trump administration is denouncing CNN for airing a portion of the new Iranian supreme leader's first public statement since he got the job.

Newly revealed incendiary messages in which a Live Nation employee mocks customers as “so stupid” and says the company is “robbing them blind, baby” are gaining public attention during an ongoing antitrust trial.

Live Nation and the U.S. government struck a deal this week that they say would give artists and venues more choice when it comes selling concert tickets to music fans.

A new Met Opera production of “Tristan und Isolde” uses Wagner’s rare wooden horn, the holztrompete, for a key offstage moment.

Horror filmmaker Ian Tuason is making his feature debut with “Undertone.”.

British rock star Morrissey won’t perform a concert in Valencia after festivities in the Spanish city kept him from getting a proper night’s rest.

Georgia’s film industry is struggling.

René Redzepi has stepped down from his post at the iconic Danish restaurant Noma following allegations of abuse and assault at the Copenhagen landmark.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit and returning it to South Africa.

Shakira says her new world tour is turning lifelong dreams into reality as she sets attendance records and earns major recognition.

The Oscars producers are turning this year’s nominated songs into big showpieces that celebrate the films behind them.

Jill Biden says she wants to “set the record straight” as she breaks her silence about Joe Biden’s decision to end his 2024 presidential reelection bid under pressure from Democrats who were concerned about his age and viability against Republican Donald Trump.

Ken Follett’s next historical epic is a story of forbidden romance set during a time of official propriety, the Victorian age.

A court hearing for Cher's son over charges he broke into a New Hampshire home this month has been canceled.

Gustavo Dudamel is pushing back after Timothée Chalamet said “no one cares” about opera and ballet.

Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière built a fake mountain range inside the Louvre and sent models climbing through it.

The Oscars team says the 98th Academy Awards aims to feel warm, tight and built for both the room and viewers at home.

Authorities say a Florida woman has been charged with attempted murder and other felonies over gunshots fired at Rihanna's Los Angeles home last weekend.

Awards season has a way of diminishing the movie year into a handful of films that are talked about ad nauseam for months.

Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis met at the Oscars in 2021.

Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork.

Gustavo Dudamel starts a new era as music director of the New York Philharmonic in September, and he wants it to feel bold and modern.

Mark Ballas returns to Broadway in “Chicago,” and he reunites with former “Dancing with the Stars” partner Whitney Leavitt.

Chanel’s Matthieu Blazy is still building.

Through its social media feed, the White House has sent out a series of pumped-up videos that mix real Iran war explosions with movie action heroes, video game footage and sports heroes.

Tommy DeCarlo, who sang with the band Boston for nearly 20 years after posting a Myspace tribute to the band’s original singer, has died at 60.

A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize.

Brazilian thriller “The Secret Agent” has grabbed Oscars attention with nominations for best international film and best picture.

Multiple gunshots were fired at the Los Angeles home of Rihanna and police have taken a woman into custody.

Simon & Schuster has named a former Amazon.

They call themselves “sister-friends.”.

Paris Fashion Week shows designers resetting big brands with clothes that match a tense, noisy world.

About two dozen couples have taken part in the U.K. Wife Carrying Race, one of the country's quirkiest annual sports events.

Paris Hilton has launched a new national fund to help women-owned small businesses recover after disasters.

The Justice Department says it's reached a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, California-based Live Nation Entertainment that will benefit consumers by letting competitors play a role in ticket sales and force Live Nation to give up control of 13 amphitheaters.

Family, friends and fans are gathering for the funeral of urban salsa music pioneer Willie Colón.

Fox News has apologized for airing old video of a hatless President Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony as part of its coverage.

“Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died Sunday at 84.

Disney and Pixar’s new film “Hoppers” is leading the North American box office with a strong debut, while Warner Bros.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's actions to dismantle the Voice of America over the past year are illegal.

A woman has sued memoir author Amy Griffin, saying Griffin stole descriptions of childhood sexual abuse from incidents in her life.

A Spanish soccer team is asking Madonna for help in finding the club shirt she wore on stage during a concert in 1990.

Andris Nelsons is leaving as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra after the board decides not to renew him.

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National Symphony Orchestra director Jean Davidson has left the Kennedy Center to lead the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, as turmoil grows under President Donald Trump’s control.

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has opened a photography exhibition in Athens days before he is due to attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

The New York Times is urging a federal judge to block a Pentagon policy that has limited access to the building for journalists from many mainstream news outlets.

Steve Carell has a new HBO comedy that digs into the awkward push and pull between dads and adult daughters.

Paris Fashion Week is delivering a forceful reminder of why it remains a capital of fashion, with blockbuster celebrity front rows, boundary-pushing design and collections that are tackling big ideas about power, craft and the female body.

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Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western family drama series “The Madison” debuting on Paramount+ and the animated movie smash “Zootopia 2” landing on Disney+ are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

Daryl Hannah has issued a scathing response to the new TV series about John F. Kennedy Jr. and wife Carolyn Bessette.

Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has drawn negative attention for his comment that the press has emphasized casualties in the Iran war because it wants to make President Donald Trump look bad.

Nightlife in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos can be very expensive with its table culture where revellers are divided into a multitier system and compelled to buy very expensive drinks.

The platinum-selling R&B group B2K has reunited for the upcoming Boys 4 Life Tour, and they’re co-headlining with fellow 2000s superstar, Bow Wow.

A MrBeast video editor has been fired after accusations of insider trading by Kalshi.

The Cannes Film Festival will honor filmmaker Peter Jackson with an honorary Palme d’Or at the upcoming French festival.

Oprah Winfrey and her longtime friend Gayle King are among celebrities on the front row at Chloé fashion show at Paris Fashion Week.

The Oscar race has tightened after surprise wins at the Actor Awards, and Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle say the top prizes now look less settled.

Rachael Ray knows she's harder to find these days, but she's not slowing down.

Savannah Guthrie made an off-camera appearance at offices of NBC's “Today” show, her first time back since her mother Nancy went missing from her Arizona home.

Britney Spears has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol near her Southern California home.

VistaVision, the large-scale film format used largely in the 1950s, is enjoying a big-screen revival.

Denmark is debating whether top-level cooking counts as art, and the country’s most theatrical restaurants sit at the center of it.

Thirty years after the success of its star-studded “Help” benefit compilation, War Child UK is releasing its follow-up called “Help(2)."

The LA city council has voted unanimously to designate the the so-called “Brady Bunch” house in the San Fernando Valley as a historic-cultural monument.

Ten horses — five black, five white — entered the sand ring first.

Maggie Gyllenhaal turns “The Bride!”.

Oscar nominee Delroy Lindo has decades of performances on screen, stage and television under his belt.

British rapper Ghetts has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing a 20-year-old Nepali student in a hit-and-run in London last year.

Some of the sharpest criticism President Donald Trump has faced in the early days of the Iran war has come from once-loyal media figures more accustomed to singing his praises.

Jonathan Anderson fall-winter 2026 collection for Dior at the Paris Fashion Week has invoked an Impressionist painting, steeped in flowers, water and the art of being seen.

A Justice Department lawyer has told a New York jury at the start of an antitrust trial that the concert ticket industry is broken because Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment have monopolized the market, driving up prices for consumers.

Padma Lakshmi is back with a new cooking competition, “America's Culinary Cup,” on CBS.

Who says to beware the Ides of March.

Robert De Niro was a featured guest Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall, where he recited Abraham Lincoln’s warning against mob violence.

Christina Applegate releases a blunt new memoir that lays out her fame, trauma and illness without a filter.

Chef Patrick O’Connell has written a memoir about turning an old garage into The Inn at Little Washington, a world-famous restaurant.

Justin Timberlake is suing to block the release of police body camera footage from his drunken driving arrest in New York’s Hamptons in 2024.

The Trump administration took more than 48 hours to make any live, public communication with the American people about why it had decided to go to war with Iran.

Jimmy Fallon made fun of Jack Hughes for getting a tooth knocked out before scoring his Olympic-final overtime goal and praised Hilary Knight for winning at her fifth Games as the U.S. gold medal-winning hockey players made another late-night television appearance.

Robert De Niro will appear this week at Carnegie Hall.

Love Rocks NYC brings major music stars together to raise money for God’s Love We Deliver as many nonprofits worry about increased food insecurity.

A triceratops skeleton that once greeted visitors at a Wyoming museum is heading to an online auction as dinosaur prices keep soaring.

The Rijksmuseum says a painting once dismissed as “not a Rembrandt” is now confirmed as a work by the Dutch Golden Age master.

Milan Fashion Week has kicked off a season of fresh starts, with new creative directors and a clear push toward practical glamour.

The massively popular K-pop girl group Twice marks a decade together by widening its sound on and stepping into a massive Netflix hit.

A month after her unexpected death, Catherine O’Hara won a posthumous award at the 32nd Actor Awards for her performance on “The Studio.”.